Would be nice if there were quality SB recordings of all nights. Sometimes I dread audience tapes, but this one is pretty sweet. Nicest of the ones uploaded for this show. (IMO)

Another rain-out defiantly ignored. Three nights in the shower. This one is probably the best of the run, with the best first and second sets overall. This show is known for the 1st set Cassidy/Loser and the second set Miracle Jam (though the whole sequence is must-hear-once).

First Set. After a struggle the night before, they bang on out t'gate with Minglewood (rainy day women/T right here in Denver). Though sources are challenging, it's an amazing, rain-defying furnace blast (the whole show takes some jumbling/tinkering with sources and an old-school AUD-ear). After a solid Friend of the Devil Bobby tries for El Paso, but nobody rides to west Texas with him. Lucky for us, because he instead leads a solid, affable Cassidy that maintains X factor into a perfect Loser. The next few are also solid, with Jer working hard to put this Looks Like Rain over. Might as Well mostly sputters, but this short-ish set is easily the best of the run.

Second Set. Cold Rain is an obvious opener pick that was saved for the final set of the run. It's a generic version, but after this another solid set takes shape. Samson is a whopping, power version. Crazy Fingers is less so, but with a nice finish. I Need a Miracle is totally nailed, and Jer quickly dives into a jam in G that sounds prepped but hadn't occurred before. At one point he plays a vaguely Crazy Fingers-like chording, which Bobby picks up, playing the Crazy Fingers opening riff [G arpeggio] for a few seconds. But Jer immediately abandons that direction [this may be the only time Bobby made a back-into-Fingers attempt, though there isn't much intent]. It then becomes a near-TOO, and then a near-Spanish Jam, with hints of other '82 themes! A 10½min Miracle and one of the great "missing" SBDs of '82. Maybe Jer was tired of the relative brevity of Miracle. S t r e t c h. From Space there's a long, wonderful tease into The Other One until you finally get the Phil rumble, and then everybody locks down for an inspired version. The rest is average '82. Around has "They didn't come down from the Rocks". Brokedown was always so potent in person; the Heads all with the feeling of having gone through something together, suggested by the mood of the song melodically.

1st Set:  B
2nd Set: B-
Overall = 3¾ stars

Highlights:
New Minglewood Blues - furnace blast
Cassidy - tighter than paint
Loser - Jer then matches Bobby
Samson & Delilah - whopping anchor of sequence
I Need a Miracle - unique jam in G is '82 must-hear
The Other One - storm day version tops era cohorts

SOURCES: A grab bag of sources and no clear winner. I had the best results with the Bob Morris (morris_102039) for the first set and the Jim Wise (miller_102569) for the second set. The Morris has better presence at first (not the first track; it's from a different source), but runs super fast, needing -2.5% pitch correction from Friend>Stranger, -2.75% for rest of first set, and -3% for the second set. The Jim Wise is just slightly plus/minus, needing +0.5% for the first set, and Cold Rain. It needs -1% for Samson>Space and then needs -0.5%. It calls the jam on Miracle "Crazy Fingers" (others call it Space). It doesn't have the best image, has more AUD chatter, and is missing some Drums into Space (with two edits in Space). Also, be forewarned: it's swimmy - especially on headphones. But it has the best clarity for the second set. The lamarre_berger is pitched even faster than the Morris. The streeter-miller is only slightly fast but doesn't have the better image or freqs. Nor does the beyerm201_holbrook, though it's pitched right. The Ammons_Noel has the worst image but best freq range. EQ-fried sounding and boomy, it does have the best Minglewood (needs -1% pitch) and is the only complete Drums into Space. ALL sources need balance intervention.

I feel this is a superior recording to the J.Wise version.
It has less 1st set crowd-chatter, and Jerry's vocals are incredibly up front. Compare opening verse of 'Loser' between the two versions.

Unfortunately, it needs pitch correction, so I think I'll DL the Wise. Maybe I need the equipment to do corrections myself..hmmm.